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0253066654 pdf Independent Africa explores Africa's political economy in the first two full decades of independence through the joint projects of nation-building, economic development, and international relations. Drawing on the political careers of four heads of states: Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Ahmed Skou Tour of Guinea, Lopold Sdar Senghor, and Julius Kambarage Nyerere of Tanzania, Independent Africa engages four major themes: what does it mean to construct an African nation-state and what should an African nation-state look like how does one grow a tropical economy emerging from European colonialism how to explore an indigenous model of economic development, a "third way," in the context of a Cold War that had divided the world into two camps and how to leverage internal resources and external opportunities to diversify agricultural economics and industrialize. Read more